on Tuesday.Officials said that a team of khasadar
...a rural policeman in Pakistain or India...
s was sent to Sheikhmal Khel area on Tuesday morning to asses the damage done to a government primary school, targeted by Islamic fascisti on the night between Monday and Tuesday.
During the inspection of the damaged building, an unwent
kaboom!device buried under the debris went off, injuring three men including two khasadars.
One of the khasadars identified as Murtaza Khan departed this vale of tears while his colleague Waliullah and a local resident Abdullah were treated for their injuries in Landi Kotal hospital.
Two rooms, a veranda and a portion of the boundary wall were damaged in the kaboom. Nobody was present in the building at the time of the kaboom as schools in Landi Kotal have been closed for winter vacations.
Officials said that they started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started investigations. No one has so far grabbed credit for targeting the school. The incident is second of its type in Landi Kotal in less than a week.
Four days ago, unidentified Islamic fascisti blew up a government primary school near the Torkham border.
Officials of the education department said that number of schools destroyed in Khyber Agency had reached 57. Out of these schools 32 were targeted in Bara, 22 in Landi Kotal and four in Jamrud, depriving 16,000 children of education only in Bara tehsil.
Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system...
the political administration paid cash compensation to the families of the two khasadars, who had bit the dust in an encounter with a gang of kidnappers in Jamrud on Monday.The families of Mir Mat and Yousaf were given Rs500,000 and Rs300,000 respectively. Other khasadars, who took part in the operation, were also awarded Rs200,000 by the political agent.
However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the compensation was awarded only after a protest demonstration by the relatives of the slain khasadars. Mir Mat's father Zar Mat Khan, also a khasadar, was killed in a suicide kaboom in Jamrud a year ago.In Swabi, unidentified Islamic fascisti blew up a CD shop in Razaar tehsil on Monday night.
The CD shop was destroyed completely when explosive went off in a market in Dagai village. Two other adjacent shops were also damaged. Police reached the area soon after the incident and collected evidence. Nobody was hurt in the incident.
In Lakki Marwat, a vehicle carrying workers of a project was partially damaged in a roadside blast on Tuesday evening.
An official said that an bomb planted alongside Lakki-Mianwali Road went off when the bus carrying PAEC workers reached near Chowkijand. "The workers were coming to Lakki city from the project site as usual," an official said.
He said that the kaboom occurred after the bus crossed the place where the bomb was planted. All the workers onboard remained safe.